I have a smaller 120GB drive which has run out of space, which I have imaged to a larger 500GB drive using:
dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=/dev/sda4 bs=32M
After mounting to /R500 df shows me 100% in use which ...

I have family pictures and movies in a folder /media/data/Selbstgemacht and I'd like to find the size of all pictures. In /media/data I use find Selbstgemacht -type f -iname '*.jpg' -exec du -ch '{}' ...

I have a large directory containing subdirectories and files that I wish to copy recursively.
Is there any way to tell cp that it should perform the copy operation in order of file size, so that the ...

I have VHM system and I have a domain and two subdomain on this system. I tried to take a backup than after sometime I cannot access cpanel but I can access VHM. but some of the VHM options gives disk ...

I have written this script Scrit in Linux.
I now need to know the size for each sub directory with the condition -atime +${DAYS} searching down from directory $DIR.
The result should be gathered in ...

Is there any locking on the content, imposed by the process if at all the process is using the file.
We host a JBoss app server on a RHEL 6.4 OS and due to the disk space constraints we have decided ...

I've installed Wine on Linux Mint 16 to run setup.exe files from Windows, but when i run the .exe file, a very small-sized window appears, the setup seems to work but i can't read anything.
The same ...

I just installed Fedora 19 on a VirtualBox and when I started it for the first time it only allowed the screen resolution 1024x768
After some research I managed to install the guest additions and I ...

When I run this command in a Linux terminal (konsole) and change then the windows size nothing happens.
I have a second Linux in a virtual machine. There it works as expected.
trap -- 'echo changed ...

In the "size" column in Krusader, there is a link's size noted, instead of the size of the actual file. This is the same as what ls -l shows (the full address of the target file, e.g. 64 B instead of ...

We all have seen gazillions of directory size reports from ls or stat. We know they don't mean real size of the content, but they do have meaning, but since the meaning is not very useful for normal ...

I am new to UNIX and have a doubt about file size in UNIX (AIX).
ls -ltr shows me fileA size as 59096.
As per my knowledge this is in bytes ,so it is nearly = 0.06 MB
However, a script which should ...

I'd like to know the distribution of file sizes under a certain directory.
Please note: distribution of file sizes, not size of a directory. That means I want to know there are 25 files of 60 bytes, ...

I have a ubuntu system as a virtual system on Virtual Box. It uses VHD as its hard disk.
I manged to change the size of VHD using VHD resizer, now I want to expand the partition on vhd so it uses the ...